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This piece presents fragments from Beethoven's 9th Symphony, imagining them as 'leftovers', vestiges or ruins of a disappeared masterpiece. The eight or so fragments used – sometimes just one harmony – endure the same 'insults' that time, natural disasters and men's destructive power inflict on monuments from great civilizations of the past, making them crumble, erode, collapse, break, scatter, move, turn to sand and stones, become hidden from view, disappear and transform, buried and entombed. Nevertheless, these deprived ruins resist and provoke in us strong, vivid emotions, of nostalgia, persistence, retentivity and poetry. The analogy of this past era to our own time leads to other perspectives: here, we discover our own losses, our own erosions, our own incomplete memory, whatever is still distinct or unclear to us, our
